Poolside AI is valued at $3 billion, yet it has no product — just a promise of building AI for software engineering. Here are the challenges which will make it hard for the Poolside team to execute this vision. And dangerous road ahead.

Are we asking the right questions or tracking the most important metrics when discussing AI? Does it make sense to use non-deterministic models where accuracy is critically important?

Hive is a startup that just announced a €12M Series A to transform cloud data storage with a secure and sustainable distributed cloud. I examine whether their strategy is sound enough to survive or even go up against the likes of Dropbox.